Since
our last communiqué we have discovered the existence of a third asteroid
family with Earth—crossing orbits: AMOR. So we’ve decided to change
the name of the Provisional Government to: Autonomous Autarkik Asteroids of
Aten, Apollo & Amor—or the 6A Project, for short.

Scientists
have determined that one of the Amor Family, 1943 Anteros (the number refers to
listing in the Minor Planets Catalog) will prove the most
easily—accessible of all the asteroids. They suggest 1992 as the ideal
date for an unmanned launch to go & fetch samples from Anteros, to
determine (among other things) possible mineral resources. The round trip would
take 3 years.

B.T. O’Leary
has outlined plans for prospecting & retrieval in the 6A region, including
a grandiose scheme for moving asteroids into inner—Earth orbits.
O’Neil (another mad Celt?) has also published articles on the asteroids
as sources of raw materials for Space industrialization.

Not all
the members of the Families have been discovered yet. In Aten, 3 have been
named out of an estimated 100 (as of 2004, 213 have been identified-JK), In
Apollo, 23 have been named out of 400-800 (as of 2004, 1,303 have been identified-JK),
and in Amor 20 out of perhaps 2002 (as of 2004, 1,213 have been identified. See
catalog of all three groups at: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Unusual.html
-JK).

Note
(in the appended tables) that a few of the 6As are quite large, & would
prove suitable for major settlements—each Autark with his/her own dome or
cave—or dome Cities based on the “union-of-egoists” prin­ciple,.
with each citizen “ruling” (owning/prospecting) a tract somewhere
on (or off) the planet—like feudal lords who owned estates but lived in
London or Paris. Other asteroids are small enough for a single bolo, or even a
hermit. Perhaps 2061 Anza, the biggest (450 cubic km) could be reserved for an
anarcho-syndicalist or libertarian communist settlement, for those friends who
find autarky unsympathetic but who want to partic­ipate in the 6A Project.

Each
planet will develop its own flags,. banners, stamps etc., but we feel that a
single symbol for the 6As would prove useful. We suggest something like the
logo above, a black star with As in each of the 5 arms, & a big black A in
a white circle in the middle. We invite other designs.

Another
suggestion: our “militaryarm“ or Provisional 6A Peoples Militia might call itself the
TEMPESTARII. In the 6th century the Visigoths passed laws against
the Tempestarii who toured the countryside in small bands intimidating the
peasants,. claiming they could conjure up storms which would ruin their crops.
The peasants paid them to spare theIr fields & blast the next man’s
instead. The technique was said to involve the stirring/splashing of water. A
pond was said to be ideal, but it was enough to make a small hole in the
ground, fill it with water,. or one’s own urine, & stir it with a
finger (perhaps this was a scrim of fairy tale behind which lay Reich’s
“cloud—busters”).. The Tempestarii were credited with the
ability to fly.. Agobard,Bishop
of Lyons in 820, tells us that the pea­sants claimed the Tempestarii
removed the crops magically, & carried them away on cloudships to sell in a
mysterious land called Mangonia. Agobard claims to have watched 4 strangers --
3 men & a woman—being seized by peasants who claimed they were
Tempestaril, fallen from a cloudship.....

TEMPESTARII
sounds an ideal name for anarchist corsairs from outer space. If this idea is
adopted we will need to design weapons, standards, banners, uniforms, medals
& decorations, etc. Some anarchist armies, such as the Makhnovists, did
without uniforms – but others adopted them: e.g., the old Chicago Lehr
und Wehr Verein – black uniforms and black slouch hats – or the
anarchist“pirates” of
G. d’Annunzio’s Republic of Fiume, from whom the SS later stole the
idea of black uniforms with skull & crossbone pins.

As for
me, tentatively I’ve decided to claim the Amor-family asteroid 1863
Antinous as my domain, under the title Moorish Orthodox Bishop-Governor &
Missionary General to the AAAAAA. Thu dome city will of course be called
Antinoopolis, after the city in Egypt founded by Hadrian to honor the deified
boy from Bithynia. I see an underground temple cut out of the rock, in late
Alexandrian style,. complete with sphinxes & pyramids, hanging hydroponic
gardens,. statues of all the 6A deities, touches of Buck Rogers-style
futurismo—a pilgrimage site and R&R center for all 6A citizens.